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Renaming my Hard drive

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by running4bhs, 2006/04/26.

  1. 2006/04/26
    running4bhs

    running4bhs Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have tried to rename my hard drive and when I go to start, control panel, performance and maintenance, administrative tools, computer management, disk management, then right click on the C drive to rename it to something like H it gives me this message. " Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume." I only have on hard drive and its a 40 gig, but I don't want it named C. What can I do to change it and when I do change it how do I tell the computer to boot off of drive "H" instead of "C" Thanks everyone.
     
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    PeteC

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    A single operating system on a computer is always installed to the root drive C:\ - the drive letter cannot be changed except under extreme circumstances such as breaking up a RAID array.
     
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    TJ-IT

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    You can "rename" the drive by opening windows explorer>right click C: drive>rename. Changing the drive letter is another story and would require alot of work. Why would you want to do that?
     
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    running4bhs

    running4bhs Inactive Thread Starter

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    Because most of your virus files like .exe look for the C drive to install them self and if you don't have a c drive they can not install to your c drive.
     
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  6. 2006/04/27
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    I suspect that some might be cleverer than that :)

    Providing that you have a good antivirus installed, fully and regularly updated, a robust firewall and protection against spyware/malware such as SpywareBlaster, Windows Defender, Spybot and Ad-Aware SE installed and running you should sleep well at night:)

    I am online 12 - 15 hours a day with protection similar to that above and have never been infected with a virus or trojan and only the occasional piece of adware slips through the net.

    FWIW I currently run ...

    ezTrust Antivirus and Firewall
    Sunbelt Counterspy
    SpwareBlaster, Spybot and Ad-Aware SE

    In addition ieSpyads is installed in Internet Explorer Restricted sites and I use the MVP Hosts file

    and Internet Explorer is set up as outlined here ....

    How to surf the Internet more safely with Internet Explorer (Windows XP Service Pack 2 version
     
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    daoguang33

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    it is a clever idea.
    however,because your system has been installed on drive c,u can't change its drive letter!

    if u have installed your system on another drive such D E etc.
    booting files such as boot.ini,IO.SYS,MSDOS.SYS,NTDETECT.COM will also be installed on drive c,and then u can not change drive letter all the same.

    in fact,most virus writers will not always put the virus files on drive c.first the viruses find the system root by reading the funciton:system root,and then live in the system drive.

    but u can change other drive letters except drive C ,system drive
     
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